SEASONS ART SHOW


 

 

 

 

 

Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the second Seasons online art show for the month of May 2021. The show encompassed a range of artistic styles and mediums (oil on canvas, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, photography, digital, ink, graphite, colored pencil). Each submission has been judged based on the following elements of artistic expression: orginality and quality of art, overall design, creativity, interpretation of the theme, demonstration of artistic ability and usage of medium. Out of all entries 77 artworks were shortlisted for inclusion in the show. The competition attracted entries from many countries across the world: USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Poland, Australia, Japan, Uruguay, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Norway, Portugal, France and Chech Republic. Enjoy the show and thank you for expressing an interest in our competition.

 

 

 

 

BEST OF SHOW

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Huaqi Li - Autumn mount Tai

oil on canvas - 90 x 180 cm

 

 

Li Huaqi, born in 1981 in Guangxi, China, now lives in Beijing. Graduated from the Department of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University. President of Oil Painting Academy of Zhongguancun Academy of Art, Vice Chairman of China-Russia Oil Painting Association, Vice Chairman of China-Hungarian Artists Association, Vice Director of Office of Beijing Oil Painting Academy of China Xu Beihong Painting Academy, Member of American Portrait Painting Association, Member of Beijing Oil Painting Society.

 

 

 

 

FIRST PLACE

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Don Porter - Four Seasons

hand painted photography - 30″ x 40″

 

 

Don Porter, a lifelong California artist, was taught and mentored by some of the finest: Gui Ignon in Ojai, California and, at the University of California, Berkeley, by Elmer Bischoff, Jerrold Ballaine, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Hartman, Peter Voulkos - and many others along the way. Winner of numerous awards, Porter has exhibited his photographs, paintings and sculptures in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, North Carolina, Los Angeles, and Palm Springs. His photographs and paintings are collected world-wide. In addition to painting and traditional photography, Porter’s most recent work involves photographing temporary sculpture. As he manipulates various inanimate objects and introduces them to baths of pigmented liquids, he subjects the ever-changing configurations to layers of light (filtered, reflected and refracted). He photographs these fabrications as they transform, dissolve, disintegrate … cease to be what they were. “I do not use Photoshop or the like. Intentionally designing the sculptures to transcend a preceding moment of existence. I record that exact instance of transformation as a requiem for each moment that was, all the while conceding, even celebrating the impermanence of all that exists …. did exist.” “The cohesiveness of my images is with the process itself, not so much with the images or series of images - which I tend not to do. No moment is the same as any other, nor are any of my temporary sculptures the same as any others. Each of these images is a portrait of my artistic intentions and decisions at a particular time. I may not always know what will come next in the process, but I am enlivened and pleased enough with the process and results that I regard it as an addiction to abstract spirituality.”

 

 

 

 

SECOND PLACE

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Lev Bogorov - Joy of Spring

oil - 16'' x 22''

 

 

In these paintings I develop the main ideas of Russian avant-garde. The Russian avant- garde were postulated in books by Wassily Kandinsky. Point, Line and Circle are the most important elements of compositions. His famous paintings like 'Many Circles' and 'Concentric circles' directly show the artist's inspiration from the shape of circle. My paintings was the first experiments with circles and colors to make impression of seasons in New England. I got mixed circles up and used spaces for different colors.

 

 

 

 

THIRD PLACE

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Joon Hee Lee - Winter Solstice

paint on photography - 12'' x 16''

 

 

I try to convey all kinds of different visual expression such as drawing, painting, photography, and mixed media etc., and create the new way of images. My work pushes the limit of each genre, and experiment how these work together. I enjoy the mixture of many different ways of visual expressions, and show the result of new images with those juxtapositions, and this experimental process induce subtle ambiguity. Many people get curious about my works, asking “Is it a painting or a photography?”, and enjoy pondering about to solve the puzzle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MERIT AWARD

 

 

 

 

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HONORABLE MENTION

 

 

 

 

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FINALISTS

 

 

 

 

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